Airport card is dead, what can I use?


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My Powerbook won't connect to any wireless network even though it recognizes them. (perhaps it's too old an can't use WPA-PSK) I want to buy an Wireless USB adapter but all the ones at Office Depot say Windowx XP and Vista/7. I have no idea where to get one that will work for an old Mac. Unless, maybe those ones will? Anyone know what I can do?

Also, on the wireless icon on the taskbar, it says Airport: On, then I go into About this Mac > More info, and it says it's off. Weird.

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I bought a cheap $14 Realtek USB WiFi (802.11G) stick off of Newegg and it worked just fine with my Mac Mini PPC. But it didn't use the "Airport" drivers, I had to download the ones of Realtek and they were kinda fugly and awkward. (no signal strength indicator in the top bar or anything fancy).

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